freshmeat: Linux Needs Java, and Vice Versa

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"Linux has been used extensively and very successfully
as a Web server, but the face of the Web is constantly changing. In
its current form, Linux can't compete with Windows without Java on
the enterprise level. Many Linux Web servers serve either static
content or dynamic content generated via CGI or the popular PHP.
Neither of these systems have built-in enterprise functionality.
While almost any language can use XML (and in turn use SOAP or
XMLRPC to make remote method calls), there is more to enterprise
functionality than remote method calls. Enterprise functionality
includes remote method calls, load balancing, fail-over,
transactions, and a myriad of other stability and scalability
functions.

Enter Java. Java already provides this functionality on Linux,
without the high price tag of Windows-based solutions or high-end
Java Application Server solutions. There is already JBoss, a
powerful Open Source EJB server, available for free and completely
community supported. Couple this with Jakarta, the Apache
Foundation's Java Servlet Engine, and you have an extremely
powerful enterprise server. For those who want the safety blanket
of commercial support, there is always the Enhydra application
server at a very low cost (I believe $99 + support costs). All this
on Linux at no or low cost.

There are other advantages to pushing Java on Linux, such as
name recognition. When CEOs hear Linux, they might shrug, but when
they hear Linux and Java together in the same sentence, they'll
start to listen. In the current economic downturn, all companies,
small to large, are going to look for ways to save money on IT.
Linux can present enterprise-level functionality for pennies
compared to the cost of proprietary solutions, which will make any
CFO happy."

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